Cap-lamp battery and carrier therefor



Se t. 7, 1954 J. 'r. SIMONS 2,688,427 CAP-LAMP BATTERY AND CARRIERTHEREFOR Filed Jan. 30, 1952 Fig.3 28

28 Q Jess 73 Simons INVENTOR.

Patented Sept. 7, 1954 UNITED STATES M r OFFICE CAP-LAMP BATTERY ANDCARRIER THEREFOR The present invention relates to an improved cap-lampbattery of a type customarily employed by miners and has more particularreference to ways and means whereby said battery is effectivelysupported on and carried by a waist encirv cling belt.

It is a matter of common knowledge that miners and others who usecap-lamps have had to carry the complemental battery on a belt, usuallythe wearers waist encircling belt. It is now customary practice toprovide the waist belt with an auxiliary short-length strap, this beingattached at one end to the waist belt, passing through loop means on thebattery case and being buckled at its opposite end to said waist belt.Manifestly, this mode of supporting a battery on a waist belt involvesan expenditure of too much time, it is contended, for attaching anddetaching the battery. Then, too, the auxiliary carrier strap, being ofleather, stretches and permits the battery to sag and shift, much to theannoyance of the miner. The obvious objective in the matter hereinpresented is to structurally, functionally and otherwise improve uponknown body supported battery carriers by providing one which overcomespresently recognized objections and which has to do with a simple andpractical structural arrangement in which both manufacturers and minerswill find their respective requirements and needs fully met andconveniently at hand.

In carrying out the improved principles of the present invention, thewaist belt is provided with a pair of duplicate hook-equipped clips.These are secured to the waist belt at longitudinally spaced points withthe bill portions of the hooks facing in directions away from each otherwhere they are conveniently located for quick attachable and releasableassociation with the battery loops by merely buckling or bending thatportion of the belt which spans the space between respective clips.

Another and important object of the invention is to provide clips havingunique features of construction which make it possible to attach anddetach the battery case without necessitating removal of the waist beltfrom the body of the wearer.

What is more important the thus improved waist belt provides the wearerwith a safety feature in that if the wearer becomes fouled in a closeplace, a twist of the waist belt by bodily movement, which can belearned, will cause one of the clips to become disengaged, therebycausing quick release of the battery when the miners 1 Claim. (Cl. 224l)hands are not available to cope with the emergency.

Other advantages which will be best appreciated by those acquainted withthe problems at hand will doubtless become apparent when rated inrelation to the drawings, the following detailed description andconcluding claim.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein like numerals are employedto designate like parts throughout the views:

Figure 1 is a perspective View with the waist belt fragmentarily shownand with the novel miners battery attaching and supporting clips appliedthereto.

Figure 2 is a top plan view showing the manner in which the battery isattached and, in phantom lines the manner in which the clips areattached or detached, as the case may be.

Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-section taken on the vertical line 33 ofFigure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

In the drawings the numeral 4 denotes an ordinary or common Waistencircling belt such as is worn by miners and others. Usually, the beltis a common flexible leather waist encircling member with fasteningmeans (not shown). In accordance with the present invention duplicatecompanion clips are used and these are denoted by the numerals 6 and 8respectively. The clips are fastened at longitudinally spaced points onthe belt where they are accessible for attachable and detachableassociation with longitudinally spaced keeper loops or equivalentmembers l0-l0 on cap-lamp or miners battery l2. That portion of the beltwhich spans the space between the clips 5 and 8 is conveniently denotedby the numeral I4 and it is pinched or otherwise flexed into asubstantially U-shaped bend I6 as shown in dotted lines in Figure 2 forattaching and detaching. the keeper clips 5 and 8. Each clip is the samein construction and it is preferably formed from resilient brass orequivalent bendable sheet material. Each clip embodies a U-shapedportion characterized by a bight portion l8 joining spaced parallelcomplemental limb portions 20 and 22. The free end of the limb portions22 has a laterally flaring or obliquely bent terminal 24 which may beconveniently referred to as the bill of the hook. The other limb portion20 has an extension which is slightly widened and is substantially flatand constitutes an attaching ear 26, This is secured by rivets or othersuitable fastenings 28-23 to the belt. It Will be noticed that theattaching ear projects beyond the terminal edge of the bill portion 24.

It will be obvious that with a belt having these unique keeper clips 6and 8, the clips may be applied and removed by bending or looping theportion M of the belt into the approximate U- shaped form shown at IS inFigure 2. This shortens the distance between the clips and obviouslyreleases them from the keeper loops Ill-l on: the battery case IL Theclips are, of course, reattached in a likewise manner of procedure.

A consideration of the preceding explanation in conjunction with theillustrative drawings will suffice, it is believed, to comprehendthevarious bill portions facing in directions away from each other, eachkeeper-hook comprising a U-shaped portion including spaced parallellimbs joined by a bight portion, one limb having a laterally deflectedrelatively wide bill portion, and the other limb having a wider beltattaching ear, the latter projecting to a position which is beyond theterminal tip of said, bill portion and being secureditosaid belt and thespacebetween said keeper-hooks being precisely predetermined and servingto permit that portion of the belt which spans said space to be flexedand looped into. U-shapedlibrm for purposes of moving the keeper-hookstoward and from each other,

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